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A&E's popular program "Intervention" will air an episode tonight about women compulsive gamblers.

News brief: Construction of a 23-story hotel and nine-story parking garage resumed at Thunder Valley Casino after being abruptly stopped before Thanksgiving.

News brief: A California woman settled with the Golden Acorn Casino after a 2002 incident where she slipped, fell and injured her back on a newly mopped floor.

News brief: Leaders of 40 churches throughout St. Tammany Parish sharply criticized plans to establish an entertainment district near Slidell.

A blackjack card-counting application has seen sales skyrocket despite the fact using the device is illegal in Nevada casinos.

Alan Jay Zaremba's new book captures the excitement, color, flavor and craziness of college basketball betting in Las Vegas. It covers six straight days of betting with the wise guys, amateurs and madmen who calculate, guess, second-guess and go wild from March 13-18, 2007.

A 74-year-old software inventor sold four patents to now-foreclosed Progressive Gaming and is owed $1 million.

News brief: Authorities in San Francisco raided a home that it says was a hub of identity theft, drug trafficking and illegal gambling.

News brief: Tropicana Entertainement filed for Chapter 11 in May but its CEO wants to regain control of the Atlantic City casino that bears the company's name.

News brief: Baltimore City Council President urged mayor Shelia Dixon to introduce zoning legislation needed for a gambling parlor.

News brief: Concord officials have scaled back the $1 billion racino resort — and whether construction goes forward at all this spring now is unclear.

News brief: Kentucky horse industry says economics must change or the state will lose a valuable asset.

Metro Police are asking for the public's help in finding a man who robbed another man of his wallet inside a casino bathroom.

A report from Forbes.com said that Las Vegas has the most abandoned apartments and homes in the U.S.

News brief: The Meadows Racetrack and Casino is scheduled to open a permanent casino with more than 3,000 slot machines in April.

News brief: A public opinion poll conducted by UNH said 41 percent of those polled would be more likely to vote for a politician who favored legalizing gambling.

The casino company missed a $15.5 million debt payment Tuesday, the second payment it has missed this month.

The Vegas casino giant has requested to draw down the $740 million remaining on its $2 billion credit line.

News brief: It is the third time the casino operator has filed for bankruptcy since it was created out of a restructuring in 2005.

News brief: The man robbed two senior citizens in an elevator and then stayed in Atlantic City to gamble.